damages your things you can file a claim right from your phone. and take pictures along the way as well. another way to stay connected, sign up to receive emergency alerts from your local government agencies via text message. all the ways to stay connected and informed. we mentioned to you earlier, there are always those people who just insist on riding out the storms like hurricane irene. business owner aaron sutton is not one of them now. he runs a company that installs and repairs hurricane shutters. he had planned to stay behind and, aaron, i understand you are joining us by phone now. you decided you are going to get out. what changed your mind. i was just running up helping customers out. and i it s 8:00 curfew at 8:00. get out of here and hunker down in our home. that s what we are doing. harris: okay. i know you help other people put shutters on you help them take cover. what is the situation like now? as it is getting dark outside. it is. i just came off the to the
a monster storm. it s going to be devastating. all indications point to this being an historic hurricane. harris: with 65 million people in its path. this is a madhouse. the world is coming to an end, it looks like. i m afraid that i m going to lose everything i have. harris: tonight, irene closes in. and forces an historic transportation shutdown. harris: that s where we begin where fox reports this friday night. one expert saying this never happened before. threatening so many people up and down the east coast. officials have ordered more than 2 million people to evacuate as a violent storm approaches. its forecast to carve a path through some of the nation s most populated areas, affecting by the weekend one out of every five americans. the outer edges of hurricane irene already hitting the carolinas right now. meteorologist forecasting the category 2 storm will make land fall in north carolina tomorrow. then kin on toward the northeast on sunday. earlier t
transportation shutdown. harris: that s where we begin where fox reports this friday night. one expert saying this never happened before. threatening so many people up and down the east coast. officials have ordered more than 2 million people to evacuate as a violent storm approaches. its forecast to carve a path through some of the nation s most populated areas, affecting by the weekend one out of every five americans. the outer edges of hurricane irene already hitting the carolinas right now. meteorologist forecasting the category 2 storm will make land fall in north carolina tomorrow. then kin on toward the northeast on sunday. earlier today, people in the south boarding up their homes and businesses as mandatory evacuations continued. farther north, casinos in new jersey s atlantic city shutting their doors. closing down while new york city announced an unprecedented move to evacuate more than a quarter million people and within hours from now, bring to halt america s